09/25/2012
In his long career, Bill T. Jones has gone from experimental downtown artist to two-time Tony winner. Bridging such different worlds makes for an uncomfortable perch, from which he must contend with purists who question his authenticity and Broadway operators who ignore his past 30 years in the arts.

08/01/2012
In his long career, Bill T. Jones has gone from experimental downtown artist to two-time Tony winner. Bridging such different worlds makes for an uncomfortable perch, from which he must contend with purists who question his authenticity and Broadway operators who ignore his past 30 years in the arts.

07/15/2012
BECKET — The vibrant, very much living members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company are surrounded by ghosts in “Story/Time.” In a general way, this is not so unusual; contemporary dance often bears a proud aura of its ancestral shadows. But Jones, the creator of “Story/Time,” has long...

06/07/2012
When it premiered in Paris in 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” with choreography by Vaslav Nijinksy, was greeted with the vocal equivalent of rotten tomatoes.
“The people were so upset by the music and the choreography that they started screaming and shouting insults, and a riot ensued,” said Anne...

02/17/2012
Before launching into his radically engaging new work “Story/Time” at the Walker Art Center choreographer Bill T. Jones leads the audience in a “conceptual warm-up” exercise. He asks us to raise a hand when we think a minute has passed. Most everyone is early by several seconds. It’s the first...

The New York Times: Bill T. Jones Takes a Turn on the Stage in New Work

01/18/2012
It’s tempting to say that Bill. T. Jones has followed the classic trajectory from artistic outsider to consummate insider. Mr. Jones, a choreographer, writer and theater director whose reputation was built on provocative work that marries high-art aesthetics with social concerns, has journeyed from the stages of downtown dance to...

01/11/2012
Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to the dance world. He has been a leading dancer and choreographer since arriving in New York in the 1970s with partner and collaborator Arnie...